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From: gurgle@well.sf.ca.us (Pete Gontier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: inserting hierarchicals at MenuSelect time
Keywords: menu hierarchical hier menuselect trap patch hack
Message-ID: <24118@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 9 Apr 91 22:46:01 GMT
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Folks:
 
Doing some tricks under System 7 with the Menu Manager. Namely, I'm adding a
menu to the menu bar at MenuSelect time. Everything works dandy but for one
detail.
 
I've been having intermittent problems with some hierarchical menus I am hanging
off this added menu. Occaisionally, they simply don't appear. No triangle at the
right end, no menu appearing. It's as if the Menu Manager pretends I never told
it what to do. Some C-like pseudo-code:
 
	SetItemMark ( mh, 1, 'x' );
	SetItemCmd  ( mh, 1, 0x1B );
 
	if ( GetItemMark ( mh, 1 ) != 'x' )  Debugger ( );
	if ( GetItemCmd  ( mh, 1 ) != 0x1B ) Debugger ( );
 
Occaisionally, the hierarchicals will fail to appear. When they do, this code
drops into the debugger.
 
Should I bother DTS with this one or am I doing something stupid?
-- 
 Pete Gontier, gurgle@well.sf.ca.us
 Software Imagineer, Kiwi Software, Inc.